Lucille Ball Quotes
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really do have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
The more things you do, the more you can do.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.
I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
